PHP File or Fsocket Help

[kuhn]

Hi,

 

What I'm trying to-do is spider a persons friends on myspace to create a list of all the profiles so I can gather information. Just to get something clear first, this isn't about spamming, friend adding or anything else like that, it is for my project at uni to-do with user privacy on the internet.

 

Right my problem... if you go on a friends link for example:

 

http://friends.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewfriends&friendID=727701

 

You get presented with 40 friends on a page and to get between pages you have to use links like:

 

javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpMain$pagerTop','2 ')

 

Obviously for page 3 it'd be:

 

javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpMain$pagerTop','3 ')

 

And so on.

 

Right what can I do? I know how to get information from an url either using file() or by creating a function using fsockopen and then fputs to send a request. Which is fine if I just want one page of friends.

 

What I can't do is work out how to spider each page of the friends list because of the Javascript.

 

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help me here,

Peter

[kuhn]

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